CVE-2006-2362
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.3 High
- Published
- May 15, 2006
- Updated
- Jan 16, 2025
- Reserved
- May 15, 2006
Description
Buffer overflow in getsym in tekhex.c in libbfd in Free Software Foundation GNU Binutils before 20060423, as used by GNU strings, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file with a crafted Tektronix Hex Format (TekHex) record in which the length character is not a valid hexadecimal character.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.3 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
|
References
- 20188third-party-advisory
- 20550third-party-advisory
- 22932third-party-advisory
- 27441third-party-advisory
- 2006-0034vendor-advisory
- 17950vdb-entry
- [bug-binutils] 20060418 [Bug binutils/2584] New: SIGSEGV in strings tool when the file is crafted.mailing-list
- ADV-2007-3665vdb-entry
- SUSE-SR:2006:026vendor-advisory
- ADV-2006-1924vdb-entry
- 1018872vdb-entry
- 20531third-party-advisory
- USN-292-1vendor-advisory
- APPLE-SA-2007-10-30vendor-advisory
- binutils-libbfd-bo(26644)vdb-entry
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2584
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